• Goya Awards 'As bestas', with 17 nominations, is placed as a favorite in some Goyas that mark a change of cycle in Spanish cinema

  • Cinema List of nominees for the Goya 2023

All the films nominated for the 2023 Goya Awards are already known, which will hold their awards gala on

February 11

.

'As Bestas', with 17

Goya

nominations , ranks as the favorite, along with

Modelo 77

, which has received 16 nominations.

We tell you

where to see the nominated films

in the main categories.

as beasts

As Bestas

takes as reference an ancient event

.

The so-called Petin crime.

In that 2010 tragedy, the Dutchman Martin Verfondern stubbornly insisted on his irrepressible desire to live in peace with nature and at war with his neighbors.

He came from outside;

his enemies, no.

And so until January 19 he disappeared.

Where to see As Bestas

: it is currently in theaters.

alcarràs

Winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlin Festival and a film that will represent Spain at the Oscars, the idea for Alcarràs arose after the death of

Carla Simón

's godfather .

As in the movie, her family grew peach, but the suffocating prices and the gradual precariousness of the field meant that her uncle ended up diversifying.

Where to see Alcarràs

: the film is on the billboards of selected cinemas.

Also on Filmin, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV and Rakuten TV.

five little wolves

Alauda Ruiz de Azúa

's debut feature

demystifies the traditional idea of ​​the family.

In Cinco Lobitos the story of a new mother is told.

And there, in that short and simple sentence, she lives the entire film from the first to the last frame.

Where to see Cinco Lobitos

: it is on the billboard of selected cinemas.

Also for viewing or renting on Filmin, HBO Max, Movistar+, Amazon Prime Videos, Rakuten TV or Apple TV.

the motherly

La Maternal tells the story of Carla, a 14-year-old girl who, by random chance that has a lot of destiny, becomes pregnant by her best friend, just as young and surprised as she is.

Where to see La Maternal

: in theaters.

model 77

Model 77 tells the story of Manuel (

Miguel Herrán

), a young accountant (perhaps middle class, like everyone),

imprisoned and pending trial for committing a scam

.

He faces a possible sentence of six years, a punishment as cruel and disproportionate as everything back then in 1977, like everything in a Spain on the way to who knows where.

And so, until, along with his cellmate Pino (Javier Gutiérrez), he joins

COPEL (Coordinadora de Presos en Lucha)

, the mythical group of prisoners now erased from shared memory that will fight for the rights of common prisoners. and the amnesty.

Where to see Model 77:

In select theaters.

manticore

'Mantícora' tells the story of a video game designer

(Nacho Sánchez)

whose profession allows him (and forces him) to imagine beasts by definition dark during working hours.

His story is actually nothing more than that of a man tormented by an unspeakable and extremely dirty secret;

a secret, again, abject.

Where to see Manticore

: In theaters.

little pig

Directed by

Carlota Pereda,

Cerdita tells the story of an obese young woman.

Or just fat.

Sara, whom Laura Galán

brings to life with excessive audacity ,

is the target of all the jokes.

And so until one day she arrives at the town where she lives.

It will be then when the victim of all, Sara, will have to choose between saving those who were previously her harassers (thus, guilty) or take pity and protect the one who seems to be her savior.

Where to see Pig

: in theaters.

Water

El agua, by

Elena López Riera

, tells the story of Ana (watch out for

Luna Pamiés

), a young woman trapped between the shadow of her mother (

Bárbara Lennie

) and the labyrinth of a town from which she must flee.

Escape to perhaps return, but escape nonetheless.

And in between, the electrical threat of a storm that exists to destroy everything;

wipe out everything

Where to see El Agua

: in theaters.

in the margins

In the margins, the debut of

Juan Diego Botto

as a director, tells the 24 hours of three characters somehow evicted.

Luis Tosar

and

Penélope Cruz

, who have been nominated for Best Leading Actor and Best Supporting Actress respectively.

Where to see On the Margins

: In select theaters.

suro

Suro is cork in Catalan.

Y

Suro

is the name of the film that tells of the equinoctial journey of two urbanites to the depths of the Spanish agro-emptying.

With this starting point, the idea is to narrate a story that has to do with communication or its impossibility, with exploitation, with uprooting and even with

The Man Who Killed Liberty Valance.

Where to see Suro

: in theaters.

The crooked lines of God

God's Crooked Lines tells the story of private investigator Alice.

Our detective, played with the usual solvency by a Barbara Lennie who is getting closer and closer to Ava Gardner, feigns paranoia to be admitted to the psychiatric hospital where a crime has been committed.

Where to see Crooked Lines of God

: in theaters.

Wild Sunflowers

Wild Sunflowers tells the life of a woman in three acts.

For each of them, a type of man, a class (also social) of macho, a way of being in the world.

Where to see Wild Sunflowers

: in theaters.

Spring consecration

The Rite of Spring, which broke into the official section of San Sebastián to discuss everything, mess everything up, wake everyone up, tells the story of a young student who comes to Madrid to '

do

' Chemistry.

And the '

do

' thing is literal: she studies, yes, but what she dedicates the most time to is experimenting in the broadest sense.

Alone, without much money and without being very clear about who she is, what she is and how she is, one fine day she meets another young man with

cerebral palsy and confined to a wheelchair,

whom she gives life with the same integrity as Gracia

Telmo .

irureta

Where to see The Rite of Spring

: In theaters.

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